by Catherine Young | May 4, 2022 | Magazine Article
In Ingrid Andersson’s first collection of poetry, Jordemoder (the Swedish for “earth mother” or “midwife”), the poems serve as passionate witness to human experience, revolving around the subjects of home, immigration, the parent and child relationship, life, birth,...
by Wendy Vardaman | May 4, 2022 | Magazine Article
Nikki Wallschlaeger’s latest poetry collection, Waterbaby, invites and resists reading. That might be frustrating, intriguing, delightful, humbling, and/or humorous, depending on your willingness to steep in these intelligent, original poems. The author of two...
by John Freiburger | May 4, 2022 | Magazine Article
We worked in the meadowwhere all daythe haybine and rakeswove patterns in the greenquilted rows and stitched texturesof mown hay, now windrowed, drying Late, towards eveningwe walked over sharp stubblewhere the mouse’s forestand shrew’s jungle were cutwhere swallows...
by John Pidgeon | May 4, 2022 | Magazine Article
If we hedge along the deferential maybe,the suspension of a bridge,this length of edge,we still move. If in broken tones we huff and puff,harmonizing to a shriek,or mouthing ouch,we still talk. If sometimes we stare in oppositedirections, cheek to cheeklike half-clad...
by Kathryn Gahl | May 4, 2022 | Magazine Article
My daughter in prison plays the piano.She plays from memory, eyes closed,her heart a violin stringing alongas piano notes fall like raindropssoft while cedar trees and tulipsbend to her allurethere are movements musical interludesher long fingers barely...
by Dominic Holt | May 4, 2022 | Magazine Article
Take up hammer nails and pine Build one last coffin Name it Oppression Take up brush and sheet Paint one last banner Name them in red Rayshard Brooks,...
